Procompetitive Effects of Mergers in the 2023 Merger Guidelines: What Counts and Where?
The authors provide an overview of the Agencies’ guidance for assessing procompetitive effects in merger evaluation, with a focus on changes in in the 2023 Merger Guidelines.
Assessing the Potential for Incentives to Raise Prices in Multi-Sided Platform Mergers
The authors review the challenges of assessing anticompetitive pricing incentives in horizontal multi-sided platform mergers.
2023 Merger Guidelines Addressing Potential Impacts on Workers
In this article from The Threshold, the authors recap an American Bar Association panel on theories of labor harm in mergers.
Assessing Merger Guideline Feedback With Machine Learning
This article analyzes the results of large language model processing to reveal several important patterns in the comments to the draft merger guidelines.
A Summary of Comments on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines
The authors review comments on the DMGs that relate to economic analysis of merger review.
Q&A with Joanna Tsai
WWL interviewed Joanna Tsai of Cornerstone Research about working at the FTC, the evolution of merger analysis, and her advice for aspiring competition economists.
Cross-Market Implications in FTC's Anesthesia Complaint
The authors discuss how precedents from this case could potentially provide a framework under which the FTC will challenge mergers.
Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents
Cornerstone Research professionals and affiliated expert contributed chapters on recent mergers.
If You Build It, They Will Come: Building an Efficiencies Case
The authors provide an overview of the opinion in United States v. Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA et al., and insights stemming from the decision to exclude merger efficiencies evidence.
Selected Research and Writings of Aviv Nevo
The authors discuss Aviv Nevo’s research on contemporary merger review, as well as his writings on antitrust policy and regulation.
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